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Derek Jacobi

English
Filmography

Gladiator

2000
as Senator Gracchus:

Tomb Raider

2018
as Mr. Yaffe

Murder on the Orient Express

2017
as Edward Masterman

Cinderella

2015
as The King

Gladiator II

2024
as Gracchus

The King's Speech

2010
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang

Underworld: Evolution

2006
as Alexander Corvinus

Nanny McPhee

2005
as Mr. Wheen

Tolkien

2019
as Professor Wright

The Golden Compass

2007
as Magisterial Emissary

My Week with Marilyn

2011
as Sir Owen Morshead

National Theatre Live: Fifty Years on Stage

2013
as Claudius/Spooner

Inside the Third Reich

1982
as Adolf Hitler

Ironclad

2011
as Cornhill

The Body

2001
as Father Lavelle

Great Escape: The Untold Story

2001
as Derek Jacobi

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982
as Dom Claude Frollo

The Secret Garden

1994
as Archibald Craven (voice)

Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live: Romeo and Juliet

2016
as Mercrutio

The Medusa Touch

1978
as Townley - Publisher

Three Sisters

1970
as Andrei

Achilles

1995
as Narrator

David Macaulay: Roman City

1994
as Marcus Fabricius

The Gathering Storm

2002
as Stanley Baldwin

The Tenth Man

1988
as The Imposter

Allelujah

2023

The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island

2013
as Narrator

There Be Dragons

2011
as Honorio

Margot

2009
as Fred Ashton

Stratton

2017
as Ross

Dead Again

1991
as Franklyn Madson

The Odessa File

1974
as Klaus Wenzer

Henry V

1989
as Chorus

Guantanamero

2007
as Guido

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

1999
as Father Leonor Fousnel

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

2019
as Lord Palmerston

The Secret of NIMH

1982
as Nicodemus (voice)

Up at the Villa

2000
as Lucky Leadbetter

Jail Caesar

2012

Anonymous

2011
as Prologue

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

2013
as Narrator

Say Your Prayers

2020
as Father Enoch

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998
as Francis Bacon

Mr Shaw Goes to Hollywood

as George Bernard Shaw

Strings

2004
as Nezo

Looking for Richard

1996
as Himself/Interview

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

2001
as Nijinsky

Pinochet's Last Stand

2006
as Senator Pinochet

The Riddle

2007
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens

Discovering Hamlet

1990
as Himself

The Fool

1990
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John

The Wyvern Mystery

2000
as Squire Fairfield

David Macaulay: Mill Times

2001
as Priam Huntington

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

2006
as Narrator

Anastezsi

2007
as Balzer

The History of Love

2016
as Léo Gursky

Much ado about nothing

1967
as Don Pedro

Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

2019
as Claudius

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

2017
as Scrooge

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

2011
as Narrator

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1988
as Hordedef

Last Will & Testament

2012
as Himself

Witness Against Hitler

1996
as General

The Halloween Kid

2011
as Narrator (voice)

Cyrano de Bergerac

1985
as Cyrano de Bergerac

Come Away

2020
as Mr. Brown

On Wings of Fire

1986
as Narrator

Enigma

1982
as Kurt Limmer

Breaking the Code

1996
as Alan Turing

David Macaulay: Cathedral

1986
as Pierre

Joe Maddison's War

2010
as Mr Simpson

Endgame

2009
as Rudolph Agnew

Nothing Is Truer than Truth

2018

Two Men Went To War

2002
as Maj. Merton

The Sitting Room

2016
as Lord Fortnum

Othello

1965
as Cassio

The Secret Garden

1987
as Archibald Craven

Effie Gray

2014
as Travers Twiss

Broadway: The Golden Age

2003
as Himself

Grace of Monaco

2014
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Angelina Ballerina: The Silver Locket

2007
as Mr. Operatski

Little Dorrit

1987
as Arthur Clennam

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007
as Grandfather

The Human Factor

1979
as Arthur Davis

Gosford Park

2001
as Probert

Hamlet

1996
as King Claudius

The Day of the Jackal

1973
as Caron

Revelation

2001
as Librarian

The Host

2020
as Dr. Hobson

Blue Blood

1973
as Gregory

Animated Epics: Beowulf

1998
as Narrator

Revengers Tragedy

2002
as The Duke

Tinsel Town

2025

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

James and Lucia

as Alfred Vogt

Bye Bye Blackbird

2005
as Lord Dempsey

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

1980

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

1977
as Guy Burgess

Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space

2007
as President

Hereafter

2010
as Derek Jacobi

Hamlet

1980
as Hamlet

Adam Resurrected

2008
as Dr. Nathan Gross

Sidney Turtlebaum

2008
as Sidney Turtlebaum

A Bunch of Amateurs

2008
as Nigel Dewberry